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Comment by sangnoir

5 months ago

> It's not hard to make, its a relatively simple CLI tool so there's no moat

There are similar open source CLI tools that predate Claude Coder. Its reasonable to assume Anthropic chose not to contribute to those projects for reasons other than complexity, and charitably Anthropic likely plans for differentiating features.

> Also, the minified source code is available

The redistribution license - or lack thereof - will be the stumbling block to directly reusing code authored by Anthropic without authorization.